Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ...
by moloch-hai on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:43AM
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The water remains frozen on the dark side. Maybe there is so much water that enough sublimates to rain out at the terminator? Still, it is poor pickings.
Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ...
by koheripbal on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:53AM
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The problem is that over time the atmosphere would vaporize into space from the hot side so you will get a barren rock like Mercury.
There's always a liiiiitle rotation, so even any frozen gases on the cold side would eventually rotate into the sun and be heated to escape velocity.
Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ...
by moloch-hai on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:04AM
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There is always a little sublimation, anyway.
Now, the perpetual noon point is very hot, and the perpetual midnight point is very cold, but you get a consistent temperature gradient inbetween. Somewhere there, it's about 20 deg C ~all the time.
It's also somewhat tunable. If the planet is closer to the star, perhaps only the perpetual midnight is a happy spot, and the rest too hot. Or maybe the planet is further out, and only the perpetual noon is nice. And so on.
Of course you also make the point about magnetic field requiring rotation, which is not addressed by this, but the temperature side at least maybe is OK.